Bug#352671: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#352671: octave2.9: Control-C sends octave into a busy loop

["John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>]

On 13-Feb-2006, Andrey Romanenko wrote:

| Package: octave2.9
| Version: 2.9.4-12
| Severity: normal
| 
| If I hit Control-C in an Octave session, the interpreter enters a busy
| loop (according to top) and stops responding. A gentle "kill" from
| another shell is able to terminate the Octave session. It is possible to 
| reproduce the problem using the following simple example:
| 
| for i=1:100
|    printf("%d\n", i);
|    sleep(1);
| endfor;
| 
| It should be noted that this bug existed in the previous debian version
| of 2.9 in the testing distribution.

I'm not able to reproduce this problem with the current CVS sources on
two different systems (Debian testing, amd64 and x86, mostly up to
date).

jwe